I am Senior Researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the Italian National Research Council IIT-CNR. Here my page on the IIT website.

 

I got a Ph.D. in Information Engineering from University of Pisa, in 2005, working on formal techniques to verify security properties of multicast communication protocols.

The years passed, and the research themes changed as well. In 2012, I started studying detection techniques able to unveil fake accounts and low reputable information sources.​

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New journal paper in Social Science Computer Review

Demystifying Misconceptions in Social Bots Research

​by S. Cresci, K. Che-Wang, A. Spognardi, R. Di Pietro, F. Menczer and M. Petrocchi

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New paper @ECAI 2025

Preprint: Evaluating the Simulation of Human Personality-Driven Susceptibility to Misinformation with LLMs. CoRR abs/2506.23610 (2025), by Manuel Pratelli and Marinella Petrocchi

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In 2026, I will serve as 

• PC Member @

  • The Web Conference 2026

  • ECIR 2026

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In 2025, I serve as 

• Doctoral Consortium Chair @ECIR 2025

• General Co-chair @ROMCIR 2025: the 5th Intl. Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation via Credible Information Retrieval

• Workshop Chair @ITASEC2025

• PC Member @

  • The Web Conference 2025,

  • ECIR 2025,

  • Sigir 2025: The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 13-18, 2025 | Padua, Italy

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I was appointed Chair of the scientific technical committee for the evaluation of PRIN 2022 projects PNRR Panel PE1 PE6

 

Member of the Organizing Committee of the Aperitalks@IMT: each month a seminar on Social Networks. Have a look to the Programme and stay tuned!

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